cover story May – June 2012

2012 PLANSPONSOR Retirement Plan Adviser of the Year

Stace Hilbrant, managing director of 401k Advisors LLC in Wilmette, Illinois, takes pride in his business’s face-to-face client service model. Hilbrant’s firm was one of the original founding firms of 401k Advisors USA, which was later renamed National Retirement Partners before being acquired by LPL Financial in 2010. In 2003, he incorporated in suburban Chicago as 401k Advisors LLC and sold his first 401(k) plan advisory services to D.A. Stuart Company, which makes products for the aluminum manufacturing industry. “I have that first check stapled to my wall,” he says.

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Corie Russell

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2012 PLANSPONSOR Retirement Plan Adviser Team of the Year

Graystone Consulting–Danvers, Massachusetts, takes a holistic approach to advising retirement plan clients. This involves a combination of plan management, investment management and participant services, says Matthew McLaughlin, senior institutional consultant and financial adviser at the Danvers office of Graystone Consulting, a business of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. “All three of those levers have to work together to have an optimum plan, optimum outcomes,” he says.